slough

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.4 Verb 1.5 Anagrams

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven "to cut, cleave, split" from Old English -slīfan (as in tōslīfan "to split, split up").

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈslɪvɝ/, SAMPA: /slIv@`/
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• Rhymes: -ɪvə(r)

[edit] Noun

slough (plural sloughs)

1. A long piece cut or rent off; a sharp, slender fragment; a splinter.
2. A strand, or slender roll, of cotton or other fiber in a loose, untwisted state, produced by a carding machine and ready for the roving or slubbing which precedes spinning.
3. Bait made of pieces of small fish. Cf. Kibblings.
4. (New York) A narrow high-rise apartment building.

[edit] Verb

to slough (third-person singular simple present sloughs, present participle sloughing, simple past and past participle sloughed)

1. (transitive) To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very small pieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood.

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: eilrsv
• livers
• silver, Silver